I am a Burmese exile taking a near-permanent refuge in New York and Sydney. Here are my essays about Burma and anything else I feel like writing about. And posting the articles I like from selected sites. Bridging Burma to the world this Blog is more of a Politically-Oriented Literary Blog than a Plain News Blog or a Sophisticated Thoughts Blog.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

1982 Burma Citizenship Act and UN’s Quintana!

No Quintana posters from Burma.

It was on
16 February this year when that pro-Muslim Tomas Quintana (the UN Special Envoy
on human rights in Myanmar) strongly –
and inappropriately by interfering with a sovereign state’s domestic affairs -
stating that “ I therefore
reiterate my recommendation to Parliament that the 1982 Citizenship Act be
amended to ensure that all persons in Myanmar have equal access to citizenship
and are not discriminated in such access on grounds of ethnicity or religion,” at the very end of his recent Burma trip.

The
notorious Shan-Buddhist traitor Harn Yawnghwe (and his EBO - Euro Burma Office
in Brussels) is known to have a five years sponsorship deal worth 50 million
Euros from Saudi Arabia through OIC to put concerted political pressure on
Burma (Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi) to rid of Burma’s 1982 Citizenship Act just
to give Burmese citizenship to all illegal Bengali-Muslims (so-called Rohingyas
almost a million) by the Bangladeshi border and then some millions more
Bengali-Muslims from Eastern Bangladesh by the year 2016-17.

I
unfortunately had to leave Burma in 1988 and I always thought the Burmese
citizenship – compared to Australian or United States - is virtually worthless.
Suddenly I’m so surprised that everyone seemingly important on this planet is
talking about the Burmese citizenship coveted and highly-desired by millions of
Bengali-Muslims.

It’s not
the citizenship, STUPID, it’s the 678,500 square-kilometers - 261,969
square-miles - of first-grade land filled with resource-rich mountains and plenty-of-fish rivers
and fertile valleys and especially the rice-bowl called the Irrawaddy Delta.

Burma has
been at the forefront of a losing war against massive Muslim invasion from the
neighboring Bangladesh. Massacre after massacre of native Yaking-Buddhists
since 1942 the illegal Bengali-Muslims have finally swamped the Northern Arkan
(The Maungdaw and Butheedaung townships) population wise by late 1970s.

In that
area of fertile lands and rivers filled with plentiful fish every
Bengali-Muslim man has four wives and they breed as quickly and many as
possible to overwhelm the native Yakhine Buddhists or whatever left of them.

A single Bengali-Muslim family with minimum 40 children and
grandchildren is a norm in that area while there are some cases reported quite
often of 80 or more children and grandchildren. To make the matter worse the
porous border and corrupt border-guards encourage the pouring in of illegal
landless-Bnegali-Muslims across the border from Bangladesh.

Iman Hussein with his four wives and 30 children from Maungdaw.

Bengali Shwe-yout Dullah and his family of 82 from Maungdaw.

Rapid
reversal from the early 1942 population ratio of 5% Bengali-Muslims and 95%
Yakhine-Buddhists to 95% Bengali-Muslims and 5% Yakhine-Buddhists in late 1970 there
in northern Arakan has alarmed the Burmese-Buddhists and in 1982 they
promulgated the new citizenship act to stop the Bengali-Muslim invasion.

(Please do
look carefully at the following comparative population densities i.e.
Population per square mile in 2010.

Whole
Bangladesh (Muslims)
1,217

Maungdaw
Township (Muslims)
870

Taungbyo
Township (Muslim/Buddhists) 700

Whole Arakan
State (Buddhists)
233

Whole
Burma (Buddhists)
191

Like water people must naturally flow down from the higher level of
population density to the lower level of population density. Not just
natural migrant flow, the Muslim reproduction also is much much higher than the
Buddhists for the obvious religious reason.

Our Burma is the last bastion of Buddhism against unrelenting tide of
Islam. If Burma falls Thailand - already facing a brutal rebellion in
Muslim-dominated southern provinces – will not last more than a few decades as
a Buddhist nation.)

“Chapter II – 3. Nationals such as the Kachin, Kayah, Karen,
Chin, Burman, Mon, Rakhine or Shan and ethnic groups as have settled in any of
the territories included within the State as their permanent home from a period
anterior to 1185 B.E., 1823 A.D. are Burma citizens.

Chapter II – 5. Every national and every person born of
parents, both of whom are nationals are citizens by birth.”

That two sections of the 1982 Citizenship Act basically and
strictly prohibited any person from claiming a Burmese citizenship unless his
or her parents are citizens, and for both of them to be citizens of Burma they
must prove that their ancestors have been living in Burma since prior and including the
year 1823 which was just one year before the 1824 British invasion of Burma and
the very beginning of unrestricted mass immigration of Bengali-Muslims from
Indian sub-continent.

By that draconian law almost every Muslim with Bengali or
Indian ancestry is ineligible for Burmese citizenship, period. Basically if
one’s grandparents are born outside like Bangladesh in the cases of so-called
Rohingyas one has no chance of becoming a Burmese citizen.

By having that law
Burmese authorities can deny outright the normal rights of illegal
Bengali-Muslims caught on the border like restricting their travels into proper
Burma. Burmese authorities also have the legal rights to arrest and deport the
illegal Bengali-Muslims caught in proper Burma but they hardly use that draconian
power in large scale like the deportation programs of Australia or United
States.

Army's removal of illegal Bengali-Muslims.

Even being armed with that draconian act Burma could merely
stop the illegal flow of Bengali-Muslims as the Muslim population in Burma
drastically climbed from less than one million in 1973 to approximately more
than three millions in 2010. At the 6% critical level the Muslim population is
now waging battles after battles both inside and outside against the native
Buddhists of Burma to Islamize northern Arakan first and the whole of Burma.

But if
push comes to shove as the international pressure from the likes of Tomas
Quintana and OIC gradually intensify Burmese government will just bite the
bullets and initiate a large scale arrest and deportation of illegal
Bengali-Muslims with doubtful nationalities all over Burma. Burma and her Buddhists
will never let illegal Bengali-Muslim swallow them whole by over-breeding.

Burmese military already has had strategic plans to open
massive transit camps on the border to keep illegal Bengali-Muslims there as
long as necessary like what Burmese authorities have been doing with their
cousins (so-called Rohingyas) now miserably stuck in a limbo inside those so-called
refugee camps on the Bangladeshi border.